Heroes Watch: Shanti Shanti Shanti

Owww Claire is so sexy... She is my favorite character... What do you think it's going to happen? Is she going to be a cheerleader again?
I saw this funny video where some players ran over a cheerleader who was in their way...
http://www.weshow.com/us/p/21585/cheerleader_hit_by_football_players
That would not be a problem for Claire, right? LOL

A return to at least acceptable standards for Heroes last night....but the preview for NEXT week looks like the episode we've been waiting two MONTHS for now. The aftermath of the Peter-bomb going off, an explanation for where D.L. is, what happened to Parkman and his wife/unborn child, and, most importantly, who is Elle?

Plus, the major storyline of the season has been set up - Adam/Kensei trying to "kill" the world, with Hiro and/or Peter standing potentially in his path.

(On another NBC-show front, since you said nothing about it James, I need to mention: BEST. EPISODE. OF. FRIDAY. NIGHT. LIGHTS. THIS. SEASON. Phenomenal acting at every turn, humor (something we've been missing) throughout, great Coach-Tami scenes, Matt standing up to Julie (wow, was it heartbreaking though), and the "Y Tu Mama Tambien"-esque ending with Lyla-Riggins-Street. Heck, even the Tyra-Landry storyline REALLY worked last night. I'm thrilled, and EXCITED to have this show back completely in fine form.)

I thought this was a really good episode, minus Peter suddenly and conveniently regaining his memory (or was it just recognition of his mother?) The upside to that silly future arc was Peter falling back to the present without the Irish girl. It took about four seconds for the consequences to dawn on me and my roommate, at which point we both shouted out, "Oh, that SUCKS!"

I also called the identity of Adam about halfway through the episode, and I liked the reveal. At least he'll make for a really charismatic bad guy.

And I don't understand what the issue with D.L. is... he got shot at the end of Season 1. I just assumed he succumbed to his wounds, despite the melodramatic way he was standing with his family to watch Peter and Nathan fly off.

D.L. is dead. Remember we saw his grave earlier in the season?

Maury put those visions in Niki's head.

Yeah Nancy but how did he die? He seemed kinda fine at the end of last season when he was standing there watching Peter and Sylar fight.

Chaddog, Elle is Adam's daughter. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Claire is his descendent as well. My question is why is he so scary? Healing yourself just doesn't seem like that threatening of an ability.

I wonder if Sylar, if or when he regains his powers, will try to help the heroes bring Adam down. Now THAT would be awesome!

@T- logically he would. Last season he wanted Claire's powers because they would essentially make him all powerful, you know not being able to die and all.
@Alejandro- I hope you meant "that sucks for her", or perhaps "that sucks because now we have to be bored by peter going to rescue her and her awful awful accent." At any rate I'm glad she's gone and hope she doesn't come back.
Also didnt the preview for the next ep basically already answer most of our questions? I mean, we know pete and nathan survive, peter rehabs with the company and shares a cell with Adam/Kinsei, gets duped into helping Adam, the hatian wipes his memory for some reason (ok so we dont know that one but we know most of it). We already know Sylar was taken and injected with the virus. I dunno I guess i just don't really see that many unanswered questions here, maybe i'm wrong.

I'm also of the opinion that the only reason people are interested in Elle is due to some lingering emotional attachment to Veronica Mars. Her part in that one ep was really minor and could have just as easily been played by generic blond #17 from central casting. My guess is that it'll continue to be that way as well, hopefully she and the 4 month later ep will prove me wrong.

Adam is scary because he's immortal. 400 years of experience and being virtually unkillable makes up a decent resume for a mastermind. His power is not that will beat all the heroes one-on-one, it's that he has unlimited time and presumably unlimited resources to pit them against one another and accomplish his goals. To me he's potentially a much more interesting villan than Sylar. A Lex Luthor to Sylar's Doomsday.

My prediction though is that the plan won't really be all that great or complicated, and that the various characters will just be made gullable enough to fall for it up until the dramatic finish that wraps everything up but is kind of dissapointing. That won't stop me from watching or hoping my prediction is wrong.

Let me echo Chaddogg's comments about last week's FNL. Felt just like last year, it was so good... maybe it was having Coach back on the job, but it was probably the fact that he's back *home* that really made it.

So, if you get stranded in an apocalyptic future, and the person who strands you there then changes things so that that particular future never happens... what happens to you? Do you just cease to exist? Do you end up in a divergent timeline, to which none of the timetravelers are actually able to reach?

And it looks like there was absolutely no point for HRG to kill that guy. He kills him so that the Company doesn't find out that he was there... and then touches things without gloves on. Not the brightest move. Still was badass of him, though.

I think there was some sort of environmental-related scene in last week's episode -- the cheerleaders were collecting plastic bottles or something -- which leads me to believe that that episode was originally scheduled to air this week.

As for D.L.'s grave: If there's one hero to whom being buried underground wouldn't be much of an inconvenience, it's D.L., no?

The Heroes title card was green, which i guess would be the Heroes contribution to green week

Killing off more than 90% of the world's human population is excessively green, no?

I think that Elle is Bob's daughter. There's no way that The Company had a change in mission.